Oh absolutely. They are clearly missing the fact that one of the goals is to make streets/neighborhoods more walkable and if anything reduce traffic/need for parking.
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Insane. Not a single person was displaced because this store changed ownership, even many of the staff have stayed. However, they aren’t up in arms about how 3 duplexes were demolished to build a new bank on the corner of Falls of Neuse and Harps Mill.
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Not defending his whining about the narrow road he chose to live on, but wealthy?? Yikes. How do you guys know that? What does that even mean in your opinion?
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Best part of bodegas are bodega cats. Of course, it implies there are vermin in the store that need to be exterminated, but nevertheless cats add character. 
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Not sure why that merits a yikes, because rich people don’t really need defending, but NIMBYs skew richer and you’re allowed to make educated guesses based on tone. If I told you said house has a Zillow estimated value of $710,000 would that matter?
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That’s awesome! I hadn’t heard that. I assumed it was just a concept Andy moved on from after Bond Bros expansion and Standard Beer took off.
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Also, I loved those popups. @GucciLittlePenguin and I went to one where the newer Bloc83 parking deak is now, when it was still an old house. It was technically the only time I ever saw @Jake since his band was playing, but I never got to actually meet him.
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Oh no, I’ve been found out!!! I was actually pretty involved with that one! I helped organize the staging folks and plant person who decorated the whole house, had my zine/bookshop pop-up upstairs, and as mentioned played a set with my (old, now defunct) band. Hate that the house got demo’d for a giant ass parking deck but glad we could give it some life before its death.
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I’m mostly just being ridiculous. I don’t know if he’s wealthy or not (though owning a home in Raleigh certainly means he is better off than many). But yeah, fair point.
My broader complaint here is his combative attitude toward something he doesn’t even seem to understand. This new policy isn’t inevitably placing a new business on his street, it just makes it a possibility. The “loading” thing is nonsense because no business that fits within the parameters of this change is going to be big enough to have delivery trucks coming in and out of it. And, as for parking, the whole idea of this thing is that fewer people will be driving to local businesses because there will be more in their neighborhood.
Really, my frustration with him (and pretty much all NIMBY types) is that he’s fighting against something that is better for the city as a whole because it might slightly inconvenience him specifically. It’s very self-centered to have no willingness to look at the broader picture and how your city’s policies affect all residents, not just you and yours.
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Nope. Zillow is not even remotely accurate. As a homeowner who gets emails from Zillow telling me how much they think my house is worth and who pays attention to what things actually sell for in my neighborhood, I know this.
I guess it just strikes me as odd that there are a lot of ‘anti-wealth’ comments on this board. Why? There’s untold amounts of money out there waiting to be earned if people think that will help them influence things in a YIMBY direction. Go get it! 
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Yeah, just what the world needs, another physical bank location…not to mention there are a half a dozen banks within a quarter mile of that corner…
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I agree his comment was dumb. And poorly written, too.
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Last thing I want is a crappy store in my hood, I don’t need any stale chips, rolling papers and loitering. I want peace and quiet. I grew up with these dumps on every corner, annoying as shit. Go to the supermarket you wanted so bad and got,
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Is it really a surprise to you that people don’t like the rich?
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But if they make a bunch of money, and buy a nice house close to city amenities, then they won’t want bodegas and buses near their manicured hedgerows.
It’s funny how money corrupts values
Edit: I say this tongue-in-cheek. It does stand to point out though, that if someone bought in a SFH neighborhood 10 years ago for $250k and now is sitting on a gold mine 1 mile from DT along a critical corridor for the city, they need to cash out and move further out where there’s more parking, or get with the program.
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I have been wondering what this place is. They have had picnic tables out there for months.
What the hell? I don’t even understand this post.
If privileged is some guy that bought a run down looking house for $250K 10 years ago, you have an interesting view of privilege.
LMAO.
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Cool! I just realized where this is. I drove past here the other day and I was pretty confused as to why the bank suddenly had tons of picnic tables outside. 
I love how they’re keep the bank pretty much as is. It’s going to be fun and weird having a beer sitting in one of the old loan officer offices.
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Ok I’ll be a little more direct. The reforms at issue here are so milquetoast that it doesn’t matter whether the property in question is in a nice area because they will almost certainly have no affect on local parking or traffic. The histrionics on display illustrate how NIMBYs are constantly making these deeply personal and dramatic complaints that expand minor inconveniences beyond the point of parody and prevent actual progress. Saying that it should be ILLEGAL to run an alterations shop out of a house because people would park on the street by your house is an objectively stupid thing to say and we should all admit it.
As for this weird wealth angle, most of the quoted NIMBYs live in the Lake Boone Trail area where, statistically, home values and personal income are higher. If you bought a house there on the cheap before the market took off, well congratulations, a bunch of value fell in your lap. These policy decisions affect all kinds of people, and the point is to make life better for the whole city. I think that the city government should help people who need it the most before the more fortunate, and if that makes me a pinko communist then so be it. So, yeah, it pisses me off when the ITB set clutch their pearls because more people may be on their street at any given time, and I think they deserve scorn.
So when you say that rather than disagree with those people, we should all hustle harder and get on their level, it’s unproductive. And anyways, I do just fine. I’d say the same thing if I lived in those neighborhoods too - who knows, I just might. I just happen to have principles that don’t include treating City government like my own personal HOA.
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This is over on WF / Hardimont ? …excited to check it out.
Yeah. I’m not sure it’s open yet. Article said “this summer”.